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mischievous
Synonyms and Antonyms of mischievous
- The children had been so mischievous that we had to pay the babysitter extra to clean up the mess.
- punished for their mischievous tricks on the neighbors
defiant, disrespectful, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impolite, improper, impudent, indecorous, insolent, rude, uncouth, unmannerly
disobedient, headstrong, intractable, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressing, unruly, untoward, willful (or wilful)
balky, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, wayward, wild
elfish, impish, knavish, monkeying, monkeyish, ornery, pixieish, prankish, rascally, roguish, waggish
babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kiddish, puerile
- mischievous gossip that ruined an innocent person's reputation
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked
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